Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 20:21 -0700, home user wrote: > A footnote leads me to believe that a tool "H2testw" could detect bad > sticks and maybe fix them. I wouldn't trust any ability to "fix" them. If they've faked the size identification, they'd have no qualms about selling reject memory chips, t

scrapy on F39

2024-02-06 Thread Frederic Muller
Hi! Installed scrapy and just trying to start the tutorial gives me that: scrapy startproject tutorial Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/home/fred/.local/bin/scrapy", line 5, in     from scrapy.cmdline import execute   File "/home/fred/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/scrapy/__ini

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread home user
Thank-you, Michael, for both posts. I've installed it. It looks like it will take a while to run, and it's late here now. So I'll give it a try tomorrow. I gather we don't have a GUI interface available via DNF. On 2/6/24 8:42 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: site I found didn't seem

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
site I found didn't seem to have download option, but it is in Fedora repo dnf whatprovides f3probe Last metadata expiration check: 1:04:55 ago on Wed 07 Feb 2024 12:35:47 PM ChST. f3-8.0-5.fc39.x86_64 : Utility to test for fake flash drives and cards Repo: @System Matched from: Filename

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
I've used https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ On 6 Feb 2024 at 20:21, home user wrote: Date sent: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:21:02 -0700 To: Community support for Fedora users From: home user Subject:how to test USB st

how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread home user
Good evening, background == In the wikipedia article about USB Flash drives, it says ("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Counterfeit_products";) -- Counterfeit USB flash drives are sometimes sold with claims of having higher capacities than they actually possess. These a

Re: Cinnamon and menu bar placement

2024-02-06 Thread Alex
Hi, A few days ago, I reported that I was having trouble with the icons in the bottom panel: On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 1:01 PM Alex wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Fedora38 on my desktop with Cinnamon. Until a few days ago, the > icons of the apps I'm currently using/running, like Chrome and Thunderbird,

Re: Strange keyboard shortcut on cinnamon

2024-02-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/6/24 05:40, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote:     I'm under cinnamon. For some time now, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T randomly delivers a Konsole or a gneome-terminal, which I find very annoying. I tried to disable the shortcut and re-enable it, to disable all extensions, etc, nothing chang

Strange keyboard shortcut on cinnamon

2024-02-06 Thread Theodore Papadopoulo
    Hi,     I'm under cinnamon. For some time now, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T randomly delivers a Konsole or a gneome-terminal, which I find very annoying. I tried to disable the shortcut and re-enable it, to disable all extensions, etc, nothing changes really. My gsetting do not menti

Fedora 39: samba and printers shared

2024-02-06 Thread Dario Lesca
On a fresh Fedora 39 server installed, I have install samba + cups + cups-pdf to allow some client windows to print and generate PDF on server in order to analyse and convert these files into another format. I have configure smb.conf in this way[1] (add "[global]/map to guest = bad user" and "[pri